124 Eszter Kováts bess-cast-forced-to-say-they-identify-as-african-american. The Guardian 1 war,culture of framework its within media) its (and pres it which in unfortunately it is mainly thematized by the right-wing government criticized from liberals and leftists too, but in the Hungarian context, often countries Anglo-Saxon in activism justice social of focus itics pol identity the towards glass mocking a also - Right and Left the both on commentators Hungarian several by noted as - was it But singers. opera Black no literally are there where country a in opera the perform to impossible otherwise it make would that condition outrage. and attention by media of played days several be caused that opera cast, all-black the an that will author’s the bypass to order in State Opera had to signin April 2019 before their first performance, Porgy andBess opera, Gershwin’s George in perform to able be to glad especially am I this identity.of my Because of part inseparable an are identity and origin African-American that state hereby undersigned, the “I, Shaun Walker, “White Institute ofPolitical Science, FacultyofLaw, ELTE University Budapest Bionote: Identities Brubaker, Rogers Relevance for Central andEasternEurope and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities Brubaker’s Rogers Thing?” A “Not Eszter Kováts | for East-Central Europe. Foundation’sprogram the gender for responsible was 2019she of rich-Ebert-Stiftung between 2009 and Fried 2019, from 2012 till the end foundation political the German of Office Hungarian the in worked She Budapest. ELTEUniversity, at Science Political in student PoliticalPhD and in a and German is Studies Science. She Eastern Europe Eastern 1 This can be interpreted as a legally creative solution to a to solution creative legally a as interpreted be can This (April7,2019). https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/07/white-porgy-and- | “Not |“Not A Thing?” Rogers Brubaker’s Eszter Kováts holds a BA in Sociology, an MA in French in MA an Sociology,in BA a holds Kováts Eszter (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,2016) .” This is the statement the crew of the Hungarian the of crew the statement the is This .” Porgy andBess Trans: Gender andRaceinan Age of Unsettled [email protected] Cast ‘Asked to Say They Identifyas African-American,’” Trans: an Gender Racein and Age of Unsettled Identities Trans: Gender and Its - - - r, ih h peual am f iceiig h ognzr and organizers the discrediting of aim presumable the with ers, post Pride official the imitating falsely Budapest, around all up put were posters 2019, in March Pride yearly the to prior days Several against thehorrificdevelopments inthedeclining West. ents every socialjusticeclaim as anevil and depicts itselfassavior domestic violence. 4 manymedia. https://merce.hu/2019/07/01/kamuplakatokkal-probalja-lejaratni-a-budapest-pride-ot-a-kor 1, 2019). [The Government Media Attempts toDiscreditBudapestPridewithFake Posters],” 3 paedophilia. being thatsexwithsomeoneofwhichever ageispermitted, thustheconclusion:permissionof transageist activistswhoidentifyasbeing ageddifferingfromtheirrealone,theconsequence 2 individual/ an to identity gender of judgement its linked and der, Istanbul Convention the out ruled court constitutional Bulgarian them. The to excessive seem genders, six or five from choosing children like aspects, tain they have nothing against the LGBT community as a whole, but cer that homophobia, alleged state’s Russian the refuting stated, has Putin Financial Times, Vladimir the with interview recent a in ilarly, Sim identities. gender of proliferation the for responsibility leged itsal andemphasized unscientificity so-called field’s the derided which Hungary in decree government by de-accredited been have that are often deemed progressive. MA programs in Gender Studies Europe who aim at stopping developments and preventing changes in actors for political serve asreference points and Eastern Central activism UK and US acts to References mere discreditation. and than mockery stakes of higher much involve often and region, er Hungary,either in unique from far are episodes These broad the or cause outrage. lets close to the government presented them as veritable posters to out media the posters, these from themselves distanced decidedly dophilia is among the claims of LGBT groups. While Pride organizers time), same the at pedophilia AND transageism to (referring age” no and Wurst] Conchita singer crossdresser Austrian the [depicting gender no race, no has “Love that instance, for stated posters LGBTthe distorting claims. of One Szilárd IstvánPap, “KamuplakátokkalpróbáljalejáratniaBudapestPride-otkormánymédia by Suggesting thatif genderisasocialconstruct,thenagemustbetoo,asunderstoodalso The Council ofEurope and ItsRelevance for and Central 3

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There are a select few scholars who acknowledge the impor gender term the against discourse charged politically a mobilizing ments” move “anti-gender on literature of abundance an already is There could becontinued. sex. biological from disconnected choice, subjective Mary Anne Case, “Trans Formations inthe Vatican’s War on‘GenderIdeology,’” Ruzha Smilova, “Promoting‘GenderIdeology’: Constitutional Court ofBulgariaDeclares Istan National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People. Roman KuharandDavidPaternotte (Eds.), (Lanham,Maryland:Rowman andLittlefield, 2017). 6 which mainly concentrate on the Catholic Church’s role in role Church’s Catholic the on concentrate mainly which Identities , Vol. 44.No.3(2019), 639-63. Oxford HumanRightsHub Anti-Gender Campaigns inEurope:Mobilizingagainst 8 VanityFair was “outed” as white by her by white as “outed” was (August22, 2018). https://ohrh.law. , marking a turning 5 Ad h list the And Signs: Journal of Signs: Journal 7 Howev ------transgender people? that she is black? Is it a legitimate question or does it do a disservice people transgender to to state vein, same the in Dolezal, can such, as recognized be to ought and woman a be to claim can Jenner if claims: transracial and transgender of relation the and legitimacy ducing new knowledges on race too. 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125 126 Eszter Kováts different positions in the debate of the Jenner-Dolezal affair and to and Jenner-Dolezal the affair of debate the in positions different the disentangle help to tool useful a like seems matrix Brubaker’s race. and gender of claims the of similarity any denying debates, Dolezal sibility, to analyzing why this position was so fiercely attacked in the pos this considering seriously to tary.book the Brubakerdedicates volun are race and gender Both (4) contradictions). on below (see taken up by anyone in the debate, a fact Brubaker treats as puzzling not literally was that position the voluntarism, racial and sentialism es Gender (3) left. cultural the on position hegemonic the become rapidly very has voluntarism gender years recent in that highlights aptly Brubaker acceptable. growing visibly is transgenderism while absurd, as seen still is transracialism public; wider the of eyes the in claims transgender of acceptance growing the undermine would it combined, were two the if that fear unfounded) not (likely the with combined was claim excluded. This is transracialism but wish, they gender any with identify freely can people that debate: the in tion posi majority the essentialism racial with combined voluntarism Gender (2) woman). as treated and socialized (being woman as life entire her lived has who someone is woman essen a that is, “historical that tialism,” calls he what of basis the on but roles), gender necessary the and body sexed between connection causal a make their essentialism not on a biological basis as conservatives do, (who to stick feminists that distinction the makeshowever, he feminists, able. radical and right conservative the to attributed is position This essentialism: that neither gender nor race are changeable or choos race with combined essentialism Gender (1) debate. the of sitions gender/race and essentialism/voluntarism (22) and discerns four po then accepted, is Jenner along positions of matrix Brubakera too.” draws be, should Dolezal “If claim: the against or for arguments the of sense make to “Transgender,tries Transracial?,”1, Chapter to applythemrace. attempting and trajectories transgender three describing chapters, three with Trans”)contains (“Thinking part second debate. The the taken in positions the Jenner-Dolezal the analyzing and rectly affair parts. The first part (“The Trans Moment”) contains two chapters di However, with the categorization essentialism/voluntarism he un he essentialism/voluntarism categorization the with However, race. and gender of categories the between difference the discuss Eastern Europe Eastern | “Not |“Not A Thing?” Rogers Brubaker’s Trans: an Gender Racein and Age of Unsettled Identities ------is-a-new-gender-prison. A Spectrum,” of case the 9 in race for “betweenness” term the applies Brubaker back tothislater. does not help us situate the changes in a structural sense. I will come of interest those aiming at presenting the debases in culturalist terms. But this political the is, that conservatives, backward vs. sives progres open-minded of binary false the to contributes wittingly as a spectrum, existing between the two poles male and female. and male poles two the between existing spectrum, a as gender treats 98). This (p. genders) (both ambigender and female) + male (Greek androgynous categories the instance for recalls He granted. for categories two the taking simultaneously while camps, both from coded practices and expressions borrowing categories, two the between travel who people transgender those of identity and experience the discusses Between,” of Trans“The 4, Chapter and white,forgranted. a black). But in all of this, taking clear-cut racial categories, like black Dolezal was pursuing a “reverse passing” (a white person passing as tions and compares this to the transgender migration. In this sense, lighter skin colors as white, with the aim to bypass racial discrimina mer and current occurrences of passing, mainly of black people with for recalls he race, for As (75). home” permanent a as destination of category gender or sex the imagines migrant transgender “[t]he that claiming change, this of character irreversible” and directional “uni Brubakerthe too. highlight to migration of metaphor the uses treatment another,hormonal to and category surgical sex entailing the one-way transition of transgenders (like Jenner) from one binary too. issues race “The about 3, Chapter Transanalyses Migration,” of insights new give can individuals transgender about knowledge er wheth and decades past the over changed have race around tions negotia societal the how in developments to them compares and trajectories transgender three takes book the of part second The produces andcontributestothem,inaself-reinforcing manner. not just do recognize hitherto unnamed realities and identities but also identities gender of proliferation the following: the is gument ar main His years. the over changed have gender and race around categories how describes Flux,” chapter,in second “Categories The A critical assessment of this from a feminist perspective: Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, “Gender Is Not and ItsRelevance for and Central Aeon (June28,2016). https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-gender-is-a-spectrum------9 is culturallyco-constructed doesnotmeanitisbiologicallyunfounded” (1 female onlyarbitrarily doesnotmake thecategories themselvesarbitrary;andthefact thatsex factthatcertainindividuals canbeassignedtothecategoriesmale or highlighting that“the 10 more nuancedviewbecomesclear: transgender-transracialpolarity,the his underlying paradox the ing discuss when point, later a at But identity). gender of proponents by applied routinely device rhetorical (a box same the in feminists es radical and conservatives puts on he that suggest take to seems sentialism His 17). (p. gender challenging and gender changing between keytension the emphasizes Brubaker beginning the From the same options,beitgoingbeyond genderorbeyond race. have not do legal) and class-based spatial, (racial, exclusions multiple face distributed. who unequally Those are options identity that fact the to attention draws also he Importantly, censuses). ing conduct in visible are changes (such categorizations racial against fight people where cases instance for well, as race to applies This processes. for makingsenseofsocietal tools as useful and necessary themselves categories refusing or agender,etc.), (being categories binary categorizations for the good, either refusing to belong to any Chapter 5, “The Trans of Beyond,” deals with attempts to transcend betweenness” (103). of state conceptual a in everyone “locate tests Such phenotypes. certain of mixture the percentage, of terms in quantitatively, cate indi which tests DNA autosomal of popularity the by exemplified is ancestries. This mixed with people for e.g., identities, multiracial HereBrubaker makes alengthyfootnoteontheacknowledgementofintersexpeople,while category. race, however, sex is also a well-established biological Like race, sex is a system of social classification. Unlike neither. are sexes the between differences grammed pro genetically inconsequential; and superficial are categories racial defined socially between differences be said about racial divisions. Genetically governed cially consequential. Nothing remotely analogous can so and real biologically are […] sexes the between es Morphological, physiological and hormonal differenc 10 But despite the evident biological basis of basis biological evident the despite But Identities Paradoxes of TransParadoxes 35). ------To account for this paradox, he draws on the sex-gender distinction, While he draws attention to the fact that in the English speaking context gender is often used as English a synonym for sex, so as to avoid the as in that fact the to attention draws he While disturbing. somewhat is gender concept the of use author’s the er, howev US, the in left cultural so-called the on orthodoxies be come have to seem that issues address critically to dares book The (136).interpreter” tive inner essence […] of which each individual is the sole legitimate of authenticity, i.e., that identity is something “deep, stable genera tion behind the sex-gender distinction was linked to understandings opposi culture vs identity.nature gender The of objectivity and ity subjectiv the behind paradox additional an is there that claims and choose andchangeone’s race.”(135). to than gender) (and sex one’s change and choose to ing for racial differences - it is more socially legitimate lack utterly is that basis biological a - differences sex choosable andchangeableexpression.(136-7) its as body sexed unchosen, the and an essence inner unchanging as identity gender imagine now can one expression, its as identity gender and substrate unchanging and unchosen an as body sexed the ining in the name of the unchanging. […] [I]nstead of imag legitimized be to change and unchosen the of name the in defended be to choice allows subjectivity the objectivity of the body. […] The putative objectivity of the in grounded as seen is identity gender of jectivity fact over which the individual has no control. The sub individual, the by subjective inner essence,accessible to andknowable understood […] body.is the identity Gender of as properties - unknown understood yet and - widely other in time grounded same the at sexed is the it body, of features morphological visible the of independent as understood is identity gender [W]hile Journal forPolitics,GenderandCulture/Vol.16,No.1-22019 The Societal Context of Choice and as an objective constitutional asan both as a ------

127 128 Eszter Kováts in the Age of Trump Women’sof Studies 12 1995), 1-105. Man intheLawandFeminist Jurisprudence,” can we 11 and crucial, is sexuality and experi race sex, their groups on based ence certain that oppression specific the Thematizing Central andEasternEurope. longer endemic to the West but has also been gaining momentum in behavior.”their change to need a see uals individ enough if scale grand a on possible ety.only now is Change soci shape to will indeed, and, ability state’s the in confidence lost have citizens many age: neoliberal the of feature typical a are tity behavior. As Marc Saxer puts it: “Fights about moral issues and iden of structural injustices has become a set of calls to change individual articulation political the towards effort collective a as began What highlighting theindividualizationofstructuralstruggles. authors those with line in changes these situate I situation. the sess as adequately to order in for accounted be must this think I place. tematically analyze sys not does he (50), it” to contributes also it categories]; basic [of unsettling this to respond simply not does […] choice of largement en “the that idea the and (24), subjectivism” of climate “the ism, individual of significance growing the recalling occasionally While gender. and race understand currently we how and understand to Brubaker’s volume succinctly describes the changes of how we used opens onchoice,butwhichhedoesnotcompletetoitsend. he that analysis the out carry we if solved be can contradiction This or gender.” 16.), and the whole time he uses the term “sex and and gender” “sex the from quoting birth,” at sex her or his to corresponds gender whose person “a being cis trans, and cis between difference the describing (when identity gender times some females), and males grown i.e., women, and men to society by attributed (as role gender a to refers it sometimes term: the of intercourse sexual on sociations https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy/article/show/the-liberal-delusion-3108. 13 Marc Saxer, “TheLiberalDelusion,” Mary Anne Case, “Disaggregating Gender from Sex and Sexual Orientation: The Effeminate Shelley Budgeon,“IndividualizedFemininityandFeminist Politics of Choice,” Eastern Europe Eastern | “Not |“Not A Thing?” Rogers Brubaker’s (LondonandNew York: Verso, 2018). , Vol. 22, No.3(2015), 303-18; Asad Haider, why these changes could take place in the first the in place take could changes these International Politics and Society The Yale Law Journal Law YaleThe 11 , he remains incoherent in the use the in incoherent remains he , Oxford English Dictionary Trans: an Gender Racein and Age of Unsettled Identities 13 Mistaken Identity:Raceand Class This phenomenon is no is phenomenon This , Vol. 105,No.1(October (November 26,2018). European Journal 12 , atp. ------various co-optationsandchangesofscale. to door the opened This system. economic our in inscribed ualism individ growing the to instrumental - authors many as by described - were that postmodernism of identities of fragmentation the with hand in hand came also developments these But 1970s-80s. the of activism Western the of significance the underestimate not 15 14 the current trans and gender-queer scholarship and activism, where of much in apparent is book, Brubaker’s and affair Jenner-Dolezal the in gender,exemplified of as meaning the female. in or shift The male either born being from accrued constraints and possibilities, society given a (as Joan Scott puts it in her seminal essay sex” on based distinctions of quality social fundamentally “the note oppressions. individual to systemic solutions of promotion the and problems structural of individualization the identities gender non-binary of proliferation the and gender of concept the of meaning the in change the see I up “layersofoppression.” adding by individuals of discrimination the of analysis an into stead in it original, structuralsense,turning its of analysis intersectional systemic and analysis class both out empties lower-classmen. This or better-off women to relation in disadvantaged, or against nated discrimi are women lower-class which in ways the are at looked is simply are women poor interpretation, this In against. discriminated are people which of basis the on category ty identi another but become has class classism, so-called of critique positions for women. However, in the individualized approach of the power structures to produce specific life conditions and exploitative patriarchal with intersects exploitation capitalist how of analysis an positions. these in instance, for be, would analysis intersectional An people of interests the defend to capacity the and power of levels wide-ranging the analyzing at aimed is it Furthermore, positions. ry contradicto and different with labor of division of mode specific a to leads market or production of mode specific a how at aimed is - simply it put to - classism. analysis is Class this of example best The Review Joan Wallace Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category ofHistorical Analysis,” Reilly-Cooper, “Gender.” , Vol. 91,Issue5(December 1986),1053-75. and ItsRelevance for and Central between men and women, and the societal roles, societal the and women, and men between 15 ), the in the same context as context same the in 14 Gender used to de added in. And what And in. added power structures The American Historical The American in ------2017). http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html. dates; Jesse Singal, “ThisIs What aModern-Day Witch HuntLooksLike,” (Updated),” Hypatia_transracialism_controversy; others: Justin Weinberg, “ 17 32, No. 2(Spring 2017), 263-78. 16 cis and white beyond engagement of lack a reflects painfully that one process, review the in failure a been has “there that claiming pressing their concerns “beyond mere scholarly disagreement,” and ex piece, published the retract to editors journal’s the call to letter open an issued beyond the and in US universities from scholars 800 der rights in the text, she nevertheless faced a huge backlash. transgen to commitment her occasions several on stating Despite too. claims transracial accepting consider seriously should we then claims, transgender accept!) should we (and accept we if that ing mean race, and gender in both position voluntarist a defends terms, she Brubaker’s in his, to similar conclusions to comes she And er: not from a sociological but rather a philosophical pointof view. Brubak as claims transracial of legitimacy possible the on question same the and Jenner-Dolezalcase same the approached she book, Brubaker’sof publication the after months several journal, sophical in Transracialism”published of Defense “In article her In chance. this have philosophy,not in did Rebeccaprofessor issues. associate Tuvel,trans an on debates ican Amer the of tone the given turn surprising somewhat a scandal, a cause not did book His so. rightly and scholars, or activists from al from thematizing several difficult questions in the fear of disapprov As I have tried to show, Rogers Brubaker’s volume does not shy away self-assigned “genderidentity”). her of independently - violence of forms specific to her exposes or identifies society how to our identitiesbut a responseto we observe oppression todayisnot structures between men and women and the fact that the gendered social hierarchical the of critique original the with common in little very has however, approach, second This line. in identity” gender of sense “felt and birth” at assigned “sex one’s have to not or ilege priv the having female, or male born being with not or identifying means sense this in Gender identity. of feeling personal a with ty, with synonymous conceptually become has gender The Wikipedia entrygivesadetailedaccount aboutthecase:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rebecca Tuvel, “In Defenseof Transracialism,” Daily Nous (May9,2017). http://dailynous.com/2017/05/09/hypatia-controversy-up Identities Brubaker OK, Tuvel not? us (and, say, gives lesser pay to a woman a to pay lesser gives say, (and, Hypatia Hypatia: Hypatia: A Journal ofFeministPhilosophy , the renowned feminist philo feminist renowned the , Hypatia Controversy Updates Intelligencer gender identi gender (May2, 17 , Vol. Over 16 ------

ing the board. The the ing leav others and apology,” “profound a issuing them of some with field. the of orthodoxy” ing prevail the parrot “mindlessly not do who those of hunt” witch day “modern the culture,” call-out “poisonous academia’s condemning gender privilege.” 20 2017). https://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/05/25/open-letter-hypatia-controversy. Vigo andLorna Garano, “An Open Letteronthe https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/education-outrage-morality-shaming.html; Julian police; Kelly Oliver, “Educationinthe Age of Outrage,” 2017). http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/if-this-is-feminism-its-been-hijacked-by-the-thought- 19 18 because it Is sociology? and philosophy fields: scientific two the of sensitivities and specificities differing the of because it Is outrage. book Brubaker’s why ask might One gitimacy andauthorityaboutaparticulartopic.” le with writing from one disqualifies or qualifies identity that belief “the i.e., insiderism,” “epistemological calls he what over criticism his expressed also He professors). untenured for (especially sorship regulation of speech in academia, and how this can lead to self-cen of Tuvel. Importantly, Rogers Brubaker himself issued a statement in defense of philosophytoo. domain the beyond and influence of sphere Anglo-Saxonthe yond public less than the Jenner-Dolezal affair, but it shook academia, be 21 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion/the-uproar-over-transracialism.html. Brubaker, “The Uproar.” “Openletterto Singal, “ThisIs What”; Kelly Oliver, “If This IsFeminism...,” Rogers Brubaker, “The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism,’” on raceandethnicity. racial and ethnic minorities will focus their scholarship of members that expectation offensive and tronizing pa the conveying risks It domains. specific into tities identities; it also risks boxing persons with those iden certain with persons to belonging as domains certain cestry? Epistemological insiderism not only stakes out vidual’s racial self-identification and less weight to an indi an to weight more according for argument her assessing to relevant identity her Is questions? tain and cisgender (as am I) disqualify her from raising cer Dr.that fact often-mentioned the Tuvelwhite Does is 20 One of his most important points is his concerns over the over concerns his is points important most his of One Journal forPolitics,GenderandCulture/Vol.16,No.1-22019 Hypatia ,” 18 Archive.Today Hypatia Other philosophers and activists pushed back, pushed activists and philosophers Other transracialism controversy touched the touched controversy transracialism 19 21 (May2,2017). https://archive.is/lUeR4. The editors were split over the issue, the over split were editors The Hypatia Trans The New YorkNew Times The The New YorkNew Times The Controversy,” The Philosophical Salon Philosophical The was not met with such with met not was Feminist CurrentFeminist (October 16,2017). (May18,2017). (May8, - - - - - (May25, - - - - -

129 130 Eszter Kováts controversies foundthroughout the Jenner-Dolezal case. gender antagonizing the concerning understanding deeper a give lens, complement the scholarship on “anti-gender movements” and besides contributing to our understanding of race through the trans Brubaker’sdivides. conservatives can, book vs. progressives turalist cul beyond debates, these situate and understand better to crucial becomes it population, anti-democratic the protect to even as so allowed where are measures state exceptional an and narrative catastrophe a up build to forces right-wing by used are debates US ism, as the right direction for progress, and where at the same time, activ LGBT and feminist of field the within seen, often still is West the where context, European Eastern and Central the in And tions. ques of plenty have still who but not are who those for point entry good a as acts and justice, social on debates the in invested people Brubaker’s volume is a challenging, refreshing and daring lecture for versal. and Eastern European academy too, presenting these claims as uni Central the in arrive soon will influence, of sphere the Anglo-Saxon in crafted debates, these afraid am I sensitivities? personal offends put up for debate? be And what should editors do cannot if the published work and can what and speak, can who over authority claim that positions political such consideration into take policies lication pub and review should extent analysis? Towhat theoretical) (even sible scientific subjects, and what should be excluded from potential given influencescholar what he or she canstudy? What are the pos change? social and What is the relation of material/biological reality to social constructs sy and Brubaker’s book. It adds another layer to the same questions: the Jenner-Dolezalwith both together controver read be must and to belongs now controversy Tuvelthe however, this; on speculate not will I attacks? even sometimes and critiques their with women target often more allies and activists transgender that suggesting feminists with - woman a is she and man a is he because fessor? Or pro untenured an was she and credentials, professor scientific serious tenured with a was he because it Was online? available and read easily more article research short a hers and book, a was his Antagonism inHungary Through Two Case Studies,” 22 Orsolya BajuszandDalmaFeró, “Progressivist Gender-Based Activism as A Meansof Social 22

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